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You should separate the major toy characters (list them first, since most fans would want to know how many characters that they have left to go) from the cartoon only characters.

I agree, the list would be easier to read that way as well.
We could start over with
MOTU + proto's + concepts
POP + proto's + concepts
NA + proto's + concepts
200x + proto's + concepts
then all the cartoon characters from all series.
Maybe in the end we can list the cartoon characters also in order per series.

I agree, the list would be easier to read that way as well.
We could start over with
MOTU + proto's + concepts
POP + proto's + concepts
NA + proto's + concepts
200x + proto's + concepts
then all the cartoon characters from all series.
Maybe in the end we can list the cartoon characters also in order per series.

I'm open to reordering for a more logical order, but not that order - frankly, I'm not interested in stuff that didn't see the light of day (i.e., protos & concepts), just cartoon characters, comic characters, movie characters and released toy characters. (Hell, if even a released toy didn't see prominent use in at least one story, does it really represent any more of a character than that background extra57 I dismissed before?)

If I was interested in designs, I wouldn't have asked for all the versions of each character to be condensed into one entry each (i.e., one Teela'Na Sorceress rather than snake-Sorceress and Filmation Sorceress and NA minicomic Sorceress and NA cartoon Sorceress and 200X Sorceress, and so on for all the characters. Don't even want to *think* about how many Adams & He-Men there are).

Last edited by Reboot; March 24, 2010 at 05:03pm.
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I'm open to reordering for a more logical order, but not that order - frankly, I'm not interested in stuff that didn't see the light of day (i.e., protos & concepts), just cartoon characters, comic characters, movie characters and released toy characters. (Hell, if even a released toy didn't see prominent use in at least one story, does it really represent any more of a character than that background extra57 I dismissed before?)

If I was interested in designs, I wouldn't have asked for all the versions of each character to be condensed into one entry each (i.e., one Teela'Na Sorceress rather than snake-Sorceress and Filmation Sorceress and NA minicomic Sorceress and NA cartoon Sorceress and 200X Sorceress, and so on for all the characters. Don't even want to *think* about how many Adams & He-Men there are).

I am seeing the proto's & concepts as unique individuals as well, there are only a handful of them (@ 292 - 306). The Fearless Photog is also part of them. He was never created, but is still a very important part of the MOTU history. (http://www.eternian.com/reference/conceptfigures.html) Gy-Gor is so obscure that he wasn't even listed, but now we actually see him being released into the MOTUC line.

Originally Posted by Reboot

Duplicates:
Aran is listed (as Eren, I didn't have any spelling reference) @ 29, and Deemos at 27

What I'm unsure of are the vehicles, some might be creatures/characters?
We do list Roboto and Faker, two robots as characters.
- ATTACK TRACK (was a robot vehicle in filmation?)
- BATTLE BONES (was a resurrected creature in the mini-comic)
- BLASTERHAWK
- BASHASAURUS
- DRAGON WALKER (was just a machine in MYP)
- LAND SHARK
- LASER BOLT
- ROTON

Zoar should be listed twice, one time as the same character as the Sorceress and a separate entry
because the Sorceress changed to Zoar in Filmation, but Zoar was a separate creature in early Mini-Comics.

Last edited by synthalus; March 24, 2010 at 06:51pm.
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I am seeing the proto's & concepts as unique individuals as well, there are only a handful of them (@ 292 - 306).

And I was just going to leave it, because ~15 in the midst of over 300 isn't worth arguing about. It was the proposed sorting that split the franchises out (which would immediately result in at least three He-Men and multiples of others), counted by toy (which would separate Adam & He-Man, even before counting variants) and put unproduced toys over major cartoon characters like Shadow Weaver that got me.

Originally Posted by synthalus

Aran merged with King Deemos, therefore I thought it should be listed as 1 character?
The same counts for Una/Queen Tyrella

Nah - whoever the masks ended up on would have been supplanted by Deemos & Tyrella. They're not the same people as their hosts the way Adam & He-Man, or Adora & She-Ra are.

I'm not too bothered about pushing this, but if I was going to eliminate from Two-Bad's three entries, it'd probably be the conjoined form, since Tuvar & Baddhra stay seperate characters even when they're forcibly stuck together.

#175 Superman needs to be removed from the list. He is not a MOTU character and should not be included in this list. Frankly, all of the silly background characters such as Nurses, Eternian Fire Department should be removed as well. Otherwise, we are not going to get an accurate count as these are artificially inflating the list. These types of characters are not likely to ever to be made into figures either.

#175 Superman needs to be removed from the list. He is not a MOTU character and should not be included in this list. Frankly, all of the silly background characters such as Nurses, Eternian Fire Department should be removed as well. Otherwise, we are not going to get an accurate count as these are artificially inflating the list. These types of characters are not likely to ever to be made into figures either.

Two things with this.

Superman has appeared in 2 MOTU stories, so has appeared in MOTU a lot more than some of the characters (and even some loved characters like Strongarm and Fang Man)

Secondly, why remove characters as they're not likely to be made into figures? This thread is about naming all the MOTU characters, there are threads already about who is eligible for a figure, and if this was one of those, then I would whole heartedly agree with you!

There were over seventy characters produced as toys in the original MOTU line, so I don't think Mattel will struggle to find candidates, but yes, fitting them all in could be a challenge. I think we'll see quite a lot of extras / bonuses appearing along the way.

Originally Posted by MegaGearMax

You should separate the major toy characters (list them first, since most fans would want to know how many characters that they have left to go) from the cartoon only characters.

Here is a list of the MOTU toy characters copied from Vaults. It is 'people' only, so characters such as Battle Cat are not on it. I can't help with the NA and POP toy characters as that's simply not my field.

This is a pretty cool list. I wish we had a resource such as this organized and readily available. If we do have such a thing, please let me know I have searched. Obviously nothing official, but it would be cool to use as a reference for customs....